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Thank you India by Maria Wirth – Excerpts from the book

Thank you India by Maria Wirth – Excerpts from the book  ( She spent 38 yrs in India ) Indian influence on German Scientists  German philosophers where very interested in ancient Indian manuscripts which were often looted by missionaries. What about German scientists ? They were also very much interested in this.  Famous names are among them Einstein, Max Born, Max Planck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger. Weizaecker and Werner von Brown. These scientists of the early 20th century new about Indian philosophy and did not hide their knowledge of Vedanta. Schrodinger often ended his lectures with the Upanishadic quote “Atma is Brahma”. Einstein praised India for the invention of zero.  ……  I realised how advanced German scientists certainly where and why the Americans were so keen to capture them at the end of the war. The Americans and British even tried to out manoeuvre dear French and Russian allies in getting those scientists in 1945. Yet Russians also captured documents this was revealed almo